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AIDS Glossary Main Page - The China AIDS Survey’s English-Chinese and Chinese-English glossaries with translations of more than 250 AIDS and HIV related terms and phrases. (UTF-8).

CantoDict - Adam Sheik's CCDICT server provides a collaborative online English/Cantonese/Mandarin database, classifying over 13,000 words by usage as oral Cantonese only, written Mandarin Chinese, or both. (UTF-8).

CEDICT: Chinese-English Dictionary - Volunteer lexicographic project (inspired by Japanese EDICT) that Paul Denisowski began and Erik Peterson maintains. It currently contains 25,807 Big5 words and 23,512 GB words. (Big5, GB, UTF-8).

CHinDEX - Hartmut Bohn’s online index to "A Chinese-English Dictionary" and "Das neue Chinesisch-Deutsche Wörterbuch," indexed by radical, Pinyin, Four Corner and stroke count. (GB, JavaScript).

Chinese Character Database: With Word-formations Phonologically Disambiguated According to the Cantonese Dialect - Dictionary server with 13,060 characters, searchable by radical, stroke, Cantonese (in seven romanization systems) initial, final, or tone. Provides English translation, pronunciations (JavaScript), homophones, compound words, dictionary references, etc. (Big5).

Chinese Character Dictionary - Chineselanguage.org’s CEDICT server, searchable by English keyword; radical-stroke; Pinyin, Hakka, Cantonese, Sino-Japanese, or Sino-Korean pronunciation; Four Corner or Cangjie input, or character code. (UTF-8).

Chinese Characters Dictionary Web - Rick Harbaugh’s site hyperlinks across thirteen major online dictionaries at the character-to-character level. Search by radical, character, or English. Also adds definition links to Chinese text. (GB, Big5).

Chinese Computer Terminology - Interface to Hong Kong and PRC dictionary databases, searchable by English or traditional/simplified Chinese keywords, with bitmap or text display, Pinyin and Cantonese pronunciations (WAV). (Big5, GB, GIF).

Chinese Text Project Dictionary - Classical Chinese character dictionary with lookup by character or radical-stroke. Provides Chinese dictionary references; Mandarin, Cantonese, and reconstructed Tang pronunciations; meanings; and example usages linked to searchable database of ancient Chinese texts. (UTF-8).

Chinese Tools - Site provides Chinese-English tools for words, kinship terms, and personal names; and converters for currency, calendar, character codes, etc. (Big5, GB, UTF-8).

Chinese Words Database - English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionary for tattoo and art design. (JPEG).

Chinese-English Dictionary - Ganesa Media Labs’ interface for CEDICT, with search by traditional/simplified Chinese, Pinyin, or English. (Big5, GB, UTF-8).

Chinese-English Dictionary - WordsTube's CEDICT interface, searchable by English, Chinese, or pinyin, allows registered users to save and practice vocabulary. (UTF-8).

Chinese-English dictionary - Clear Chinese's CEDICT interface can be searched by Chinese characters, Pinyin, or English. Chinese pronunciation AIF files are available. (UTF-8).

A Chinese-English Glossary of Botanical Terms - Compiled by Susan Marie Rossi-Wilcox; searchable by English, Pinyin, or character. (GB, GIF).

Chinese-English Online Dictionary - TigerNT’s CEDICT server searchable by character, Pinyin, or English. (GB, Big5, GIF).

Chinese-English-French Dictionary - Search by traditional or simplified Chinese character, Pinyin, English, or French. Provides AIF pronunciation links..

Chinese-Tools.com - Site provides Chinese-English, English-Chinese, and Chinese-French dictionaries; traditional/simplified and Chinese/Unicode converters; and Pinyin dictionary annotation tools. (Big5, GB, UTF-8).

CJKV-English Dictionary - Charles Muller’s database of CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese) characters and compounds related to East Asian cultural, political, and intellectual history.(UTF-8).

Daoist Studies Glossary of Chinese Terms on Daoism/Taoism - James Miller’s list of common Daoist terminology, in Pinyin and Wade-Giles romanization systems. (UTF-8).

Database Query to Chinese Characters - Sergei Starostin's The Tower of Babel Etymological Database Project contains around 4000 Chinese characters, with readings in modern Pinyin, Japanese, Sino-Vietnamese, Middle Chinese, and Old Chinese. It links to Chinese dialectal and Sino-Tibetan information, gives English translations, etc. (UTF-8).

A Dictionary of the Pinyin Language - Zhang Juli’s proposal for an alphabetical dictionary of Chinese. Organized by letter but without search, contains some WMA format pronunciation links..

Dr. Dict: English-Chinese Medical, Biological, and Technical Dictionary - Specialized online database of scientific terminology with over 420,000 entries. (GB).

Dylan's Shataukok Hakka-English Dictionary - Alphabetized glossary of the Hakka Chinese dialect commonly spoken in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. (Big5).

English to Chinese Online Dictionary - Online-dictionary.biz’s CEDICT server, English search only, one of seven language dictionaries. (UTF-8).

English-Chinese Dictionary - OK88’s online version of Linda Ng’s English to Chinese dictionary. (Big5, GIF).

English/Chinese Dictionary - Pyngo's dictionary is searchable by English or Chinese, with simplified and traditional characters, sound pronunciation files, and allowing user contributions. (UTF-8).

An English-Chinese Glossary of IT Terms - Information Technology words commonly used by the Hong Kong Government. (Big5).

English-Chinese Glossary of XML and SGML Terms - Translations of standard Markup Language from The Chinese XML Now! Project. (UTF-8).

An English-Chinese IT Glossary - Koh Chit Tng’s compilation of terminology used in Information Technology. (GB, Big5).

ESAURUS Online English-Chinese Medical Dictionary - Wong Kia Boon’s glossary of Chinese terminology from PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. (GIF).

Frequently Asked Chinese Characters - About.com’s dictionary of common Chinese characters, English index. (GIF).

Glossaries of Arms Control/Nonproliferation Terms and Names - The Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Chinese and English glossaries for nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, missile defense, treaties, and organizations; searchable by English term, acronym, or Pinyin. (GB).

A Glossary of Terms Commonly Used in HKEx - Investment and securities terminology from the Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing House. (Big5).

Glossary of Terms for Antique Chinese Porcelain - Jan-Erik Nilsson’s list of specialized vocabulary for East Asian pottery and porcelain..

Hong Kong Department of Justice Glossaries - English-Chinese and Chinese-English glossaries of legal and electoral legislative terms, from the Bilingual Laws Information System (BLIS). (Big5).

Lexiconer English Chinese Dictionary - English-Chinese and Chinese-English interfaces using the Linux Chinese/English dictionary database pyDict, written in Python/GTK. (Big5, GB).

Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage - Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Web edition based upon the1972 dictionary with over 40,000 entries. Indexed by radical, Pinyin, and English, and searchable by full text or head character. (Big5).

Mandarin Chinese Dictionaries - Blabi’s Unihan-based dictionaries arranged by alphabetical Pinyin, traditional/simplified radicals, semantic fields, and HSK exam level. (UTF-8).

MDBG Chinese-English Dictionary - An online dictionary interface for learners of Chinese. The CEDICT word dictionary is searchable by English, character, or Mandarin Pinyin; and the UNIHAN character dictionary by English, character, Pinyin, Cantonese, radical/stroke, etc. Menus support both simplified and traditional Chinese. (UTF-8, Big5, GB).

MobileCEDICT Chinese-English Dictionary - Bilingual English or Pinyin search interface for WAP-enabled cell phones and other devices capable of handling WML pages. (Big5, GB).

nciku Chinese Characters and Pinyin Dictionary - Dictionaries searchable by English, Pinyin, Chinese character, radical-stroke, or handwriting recognition. Provides MP3 pronunciations, idioms, and usage examples. (UTF-8).

Net Dictionary - SQL server adaptation of the Princeton University WordNet lexical database, with Chinese translations by Han Yang, links to pronunciation files and Web usage examples. (Big5).

Online Chinese English Dictionary - Indra Kurniawan’s CEDICT and Unihan interface, searchable by English, Pinyin, Japanese, Cantonese, Chinese character, or radical-stroke. (UTF-8).

On-line Chinese Tools - Erik Peterson provides Web tools to assist people studying and using the Chinese language, including CEDICT and Unihan dictionaries with lookup by English, Pinyin, Cantonese, character, or radical-stroke. Includes Chinese text annotator, character flashcards, and online converters for romanizations, encodings, Chinese/Western calendars, numbers, etc. (Big5, GB, UTF-8, and GIF image converter).

Online English Chinese Dictionaries - ActiveDS.com's interface, searchable by English or Chinese, integrates several dictionaries, including The American Heritage Dictionary, and a thesaurus. (UTF-8).

Pinyin Annotator - This CEDICT-based application allows users to input a Chinese website or text and automatically annotate with Pinyin above or beside the characters. (UTF-8).

Pristine Lexicon - This reference has over 150,000 entries, combining public-domain Chinese dictionaries with in-house specialized glossaries. Search by Chinese character, Pinyin romanization, or English. (Big5).

pz English to Chinese Dictionary - Primezero’s CEDICT server searchable by English, Pinyin, or character. Links to search engines and other Chinese dictionaries. (Big5, GB).

Unihan Database - Standardized information about "Unified Han" (CJK: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Ideographs [sic], which are part of Unicode version 4.0. Includes characters, variants, encodings, dictionary citations, radical-stroke, Pinyin, Cantonese, and Tang Chinese pronunciations, Japanese and Korean pronunciations, compounds, etc. (UTF-8).

Xiaoma Cidian - Chinese English dictionary - CEDICT and Unihan server with search by simplified Chinese character, Pinyin, English, radical, stroke, or usage frequency. (UTF-8).

YellowBridge Chinese/English Dictionary - CEDICT and Unihan interface allowing word search by English, Chinese character, or Pinyin with tone numbers or marks; and character search by component or radical-stroke. Proprietary software required to hear pronunciation. (UTF-8).

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